EXTENDED THROUGH December 18
Tuesdays With Morrie
A sportswriter gets coached in the game of life in this stage adaptation of the bestselling book.
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Daniel Krell
Bernie Passeltiner
City Theatre presents the Pittsburgh premiere of Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie, by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom. Based on Albom’s chart-topping book, this stage adaptation is directed by Alice Jankell (who last season directed City Theatre’s hit production of Bad Dates). Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie runs on City Theatre’s 272-seat mainstage from November 17 to December 11, 2005. The play co-stars popular Pittsburgh-based actor Daniel Krell as Mitch and veteran New York-based actor Bernie Passeltiner as Morrie. Passeltiner was acclaimed for his performance of this role in Montreal and Cleveland productions.
Millions of people know sportswriter Mitch Albom from his nationally syndicated Detroit Free Press column and radio show, and as a Sunday morning panelist on ESPN Sports Reporters. In 1997 his inspirational memoir, Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson, became an international bestseller. In 2002, with popular playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, Albom adapted the book for the stage.
In this true story Mitch is 37 and a self-absorbed sportswriter. When his former Brandeis University sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, 78, is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, the student and teacher re-connect. Their meeting turns into a series of weekly visits during which Morrie coaches Mitch about life, death, and the nature of love. With its doses of humor and emotional heft, the play becomes a Master Class on a life well lived.
The design team for City Theatre’s production of Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie includes Tony Ferrieri (Scenic Design), Pei Chi Su (Costume Design), Andrew David Ostrowski (Lighting Design), and Elizabeth Atkinson (Sound Design).
About the Playwrights
Jeffrey Hatcher is especially well known to City Theatre audiences for
his plays Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Mercy of a Storm, and
Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright (with Eric Simonson). Most
recently he wrote the screenplay for the upcoming movie Casanova for
director Lasse Hallstrom, as well as screenplays for directors Steven Shainberg
(Secretary) and Kim Pierce (Boys Don’t Cry).
Mitch Albom is also the author of the international bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven. He has been named the top sports columnist in the nation 13 times by the Associated Press Sports Editors of America.
Preview Week Performance Schedule
Thurs. & Fri. Nov. 17 & 18 at 8 pm
Sat. Nov. 19 at 5:30 pm
Sun. Nov. 20 & Tues. Nov. 22 at 7 pm
Press/Opening Night is Weds., Nov. 23 at 8 pm.
Regular Run Schedule
Tues. at 7 pm
Weds. thru Fri. at 8 pm
Sat. at 5:30 & 9 pm
Sun. at 2 pm
There will no performance on Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day.
Extension Week Schedule
Thurs. and Fri. at 8 pm
Sat. at 5:30 pm
Sun. at 2 pm
Tickets
$15 to $40
Students and age 25 and younger can reserve $15 tickets in advance.
Senior rush (age 60 and older) begins at the Box Office 2 hours before showtime.
Tuesdays With Morrie runs 90 minutes with no intermission.
To buy tickets, call the Box Office at 412.431.CITY or click here to buy online.